regular weekly programming working TV airtimes
Still playing in some B.C. communities . . .
Deadly Embrace
working TV #158
first broadcast November 05 1999,
RT: 27.30 minutes
Week 1 of 6 weeks of Special Programming
on Global Capital &
the World Trade Organization
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund produced by Elizabeth Canner and Ashley Eames, Directed
by Elizabeth Canner for the Nicaragua Education Fund
(USA 1997)
Deadly Embrace describes the impact of World Bank and the International Monetary Fund policies on the people of Nicaragua, after the election ofthe U.S.- backed Chamorro government in 1990. It is not a happy story. You don't need to know a thing about Nicaragua. If you want to learn about how structural adjustment, the debt crisis and free trade hurt the peoples and the economies of the Third World, watch this video. Historical news footage of the formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, present day World Bank / IMF television and magazine ads, and an extraordinary interview with Jan Piercy, U.S. Executive Director of the Work Bank allows the international financial institutions to explain their history and missions in their own way. Deadly Embrace combines extraordinary footage of people's lives and their struggle to survive with a textbook-clear analysis of structural adjustment, the debt crisis and free trade that applies to most Third World countries. Don't miss it!
Still from Deadly Embrace:
Nicaraguan protests against the "structural adjustment" imposed on Nicaraguan society by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Deadly Embrace was previously broadcast on working TV on March 31st 1999, together with Peace What Peace, as part of Central America today, a one hour Special broadcast.
We thank Elizabeth Canner and Ashley Eames for permission to broadcast and webcast this fine video a second time. For VHS copies of Deadly Embrace phone 603 764 9948.
working TV #158, RT: 27:30 each,
November 05 1999
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Free Mumia
Abul-Jamal!
working TV #157
first broadcast October 22 1999,
re-broadcast October 29 1999
RT: 27.30 minutes
This week, a full length report on Mumia Abul-Jamal, the award winning black journalist from Philadelphia who was convicted of murdering a policeman 17 years ago. He has been on death row ever since.
Earlier this month, after years of appeals, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed a death warrant for Mumia. He is scheduled to die on December 2 1999.
Supporters say his trial was a travesty of justice. They have produced compelling evidence to prove that the Philadelphia police and the FBI had a vendetta against Mumia because of his political activism. Witnesses have recanted their trial testimony, acknowledging they were coerced to lie for the prosecution. Crucial evidence was withheld from the defense. An International movement has risen up to demand a new trial for Mumia, which includes the Vancouver Coalition to Save Mumia. They are organizing a Rally to Save Mumia on Saturday October 23 1999, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Hornby and Robson downtown, at noon.
Speaker at the Vancouver rally, part of the worldwide "Millions for Mumia" action on April 24 1999, Mumia's birthday.
(working TV #141, May 7 1999)
This program was produced with video courtesy of the
Peoples Video Network
and from
Deep Dish TV Network including segments from the following productions,
Death Row Notebook,
The Killing State, and
Millions for Mumia
VHS copies of these videos are available from the
Peoples Video Network
Ph: 212 633 6646, or Fax: 212 633 2889.
working TV #157, RT: 27:30 each,
October 15 1999
For more information on Mumia,contact
Pam Africa,
International Concerned Family &
Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Phone 215-476-8812.On the web check: Mumia.org Freemumia.org Mumia911.org
In Vancouver contact theVancouver Coalition to Save Mumia.
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Music videos &
activist updates
working TV #156
first broadcast October 15 1999,
RT: 27.30 minutes
This week we air two of our favourite labour music videos - Good Medicine and No Justice! No Peace! - and bring you brief updates on important causes and campaigns including
Mumia Abul-Jamal, CAW Starbucks "Unstrike", WTO (World Trade Organization) Nov. 30 "Road to Seattle" Organizing and Mac Pap (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalian) campaign.
Monument
This program is hosted by Glen Clark. Recently Clark was forced to resign from the office of Premier of British Columbia and leader of the labour backed NDP ( New Democratic Party) by what could be best described as a concerted corporate media coup. We are honoured to have him volunteer with us.
Music Videos:
Hundreds, maybe thousands of English language music videos are produced every year but its very rare to find one with explicit "labour" content. Today we air two of the best ever, both made in Canada.
Still from Good Medicine, a fine music video from the Canadian Auto Workers union, which presents alternatives and hope for workers caught in a cycle of substance abuse. Good Medicine from the Canadian Auto Workers union looks and sounds like a mainstream production, and it should. The CAW paid several hundreds of thousands of dollars for it. It couples a great song ( Good Medicine ) by Toronto singer songwriter Lorraine Segato, with a story about a white male industrial worker so addicted to booze and drugs that his family begins to disintegrate and he puts his job in jeopardy.
"Hitting bottom", in Good Medicine. He "hits bottom" and begins the journey to "recovery". He re-unites his family and finds strength and meaning through union solidarity and activism. There is no explicit reference to the 12 Step programs that have helped so many workers recover from addictions. Instead Good Medicine describes the recovery experience with popular music and video, to create discourse about a subject that is seldom discussed openly in Canadian union culture.
No Justice! No Peace! produced by Don Bouzek of Ground Zero Productions, for OPESEU, the 67,000 member Ontario Public Service Employees' Union.The Tories send the riot squad to bust OPSEU picket line at Queens Park, the Ontario Legislature, in this image from No Justice! No Peace! Shot primarily by OPSEU activists this video is a "Strike Memoir" of the 1996 OPSEU strike against the Harris "Common Sense Revolution" Tory government in Ontario.
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The Private Drain On Public Water
working TV #146 & 147,
first broadcast June 18 & 25 1999,
RT: 27.30 mins each
combined as one hour program . . .
Private Drain On Public Water Special RT 57:30
first broadcast June 16 1999
#146 Re-broadcast October 01 1999
#147 Re-broadcast October 08 1999
Click here to watch one hour special program
in streaming videoProbably the most important program we have broadcast in 1999,
The Private Drain On Public Water, sounds the alarm on the coming global water crisis . . ."The wars of the next century will be about water"
The World Bank"Today's water will be tomorrow's oil"
Sergio Marchi, Canada's Minister of International Trade"Trading water is environmentally, economically and morally wrong"
Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians at the April 21 1999 Public Forum on the Public Drain On Public Water at St. Andrew's Wesley United Church in Vancouver. Barry O'Neill, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees - BC Division (CUPE BC) introduced the topic of privatization of public resources, drawing on his union's experience.
By the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's people will live without enough clean water. Canada holds 20% of the world's supply of fresh water and corporations are lining up to export and sell bulk quanitities of it abroad for huge profits.
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"Mouseland"
&"Global Pillage"
working TV #155, RT: 27:30 each,
September 24 1999
This week we begin a month long series of "repeats" and outside video broadcasts. We will be taking some time away from working TV production to do some paid video work, and to raise some money to keep working TV on air. So for the few weeks, we'll be featuring repeats of our favourite programs and segments. As well, we'll be airing some of our favourite videos produced by other video producers, some of which we have broadcast before, and some not. We begin this series with: "Mouseland"
One of our all time favourites and a Canadian socialist classic, this 6 minute animated short was produced by the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union, with an intro and extro by Hollywood actor Keifer Sutherland. Mouseland features the voice of Tommy "T.C." Douglas, ( Sutherland's grandfather ) the first leader of Canada's NDP (New Democratic Party) and the father of our medicare system. Its about a country called Mouseland, where mice have lived for years represented in parliament by cats, till the day when one little mouse dares to raise the question, "why do mice keep electing cats to represent them? wouldn't we be better off represented by other mice?"
We air Mouseland this week to celebrate the election in Manitoba, where voters threw out the "cats" and elected an NDP Majority led by Gary Doer.
Also this week we feature: "Global Pillage"
a fine video which documents some of the appalling working conditions endured by workers in other countries who make consumer goods for the Canadian market. This video came to us courtesy of the Canadian Labour Congress Union Trades and Label Department, and was produced by Peter Monet. Its works well as a kind of "consumers guide" to the new Global economy, and a reminder that solidarity is important when we are out shopping too.
working TV #155, RT: 27:30 each,
September 24 1999
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Labour Day
& Burma
General Strike
working TV #153, RT: 27:30,
first broadcast September 10 1999Labour Day Global:
In Burma, democratic forces planned a General Strike for September 9 1999, or "9-9-99". In solidarity, the Vancouver Burmese community organized a Labour Day rally at Grandview Park in East Vancouver. News from Burma is very hard to get as the military junta routinely jails citizens for "unauthorized" use of fax machines, photocopiers and computer modems. Nonetheless, we were able to get a sense of what is going on in that country both from speakers at the rally and from video supplied by Amnesty International.
Soe Naing a Burmese refugee living in Vancouver describes his experience as a 14 year old, forced to work as a porter for the Burmese military. Burmese dancers perform at the Labour Day event, in solidarity with "9-9-99" General Strike in Burma.
Labour Day Local:
The Union Label Committee held its annual Labour Day family picnic at Confederation Park in Burnaby.
At the Labour Day picnic: Blaise Gowans and B.C. Projectionists Union President Damon Faulkner, with T-shirts Gowans has produced, for sale to aid the locked out projectionists. T-shirts to aid the Projectionists struggle. They have been locked out for 10 months now by Sony and Viacom ( Cineplex Odeon and Famous Players theatres). The employers are demanding wage cuts of up to 92% .
Click here to watch this program
in streaming video from our
Video Online section
(complete version only, RT: 57:30)working TV #153
September 10 1999 © Slim Evans 1999
Burma links:
Canadian Friends of Burma Free Burma.org Amnesty International Burma Group Free Burma home
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Bitter Paradise: The Sellout of East Timor
working TV #151, RT: 27:30,
Pt. 1 of 2 regular working TV programs
first broadcast August 27 1999
(Pt. 2 of 2 next week at our regular time)
Also this week, (lower mainland only)
2 working TV Special Broadcasts of
Bitter Paradise: The Sellout of East Timor
Wed. Sept. 1 7:00 - 8:00 pm,
and Fri. Sept. 3 1:00 - 2:00 pm
RT: 57:30 eachOn Monday August 30 nearly 450,000 registered voters in East Timor will vote Yes or No on independence from Indonesia. But Indonesia's promise of free and fair elections is ringing false. The Indonesian military continues to do what it has done since it invaded East Timor in 1975: it is brutally and violently repressing the will of the Timorese people. This has included a campaign of genocide that has killed more than 200,000.
Idyllic image from Bitter Paradise: an East Timorese woman at work. The reality of Indonesian occupation of East Timor, from Bitter Paradise Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor is a great resource for those wanting to more about the situation East Timor. Produced by Elaine Briere, a local filmmaker and photographer, it also documents "Canada's shameless . . . support for a predatory military regime. And its the story of Elaine Briere's personal political journey, from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations, from political innocence to political activism."
Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor won the 1997 Toronto Hot Docs Political Documentary award, as well as critical acclaim from reviewers across the country. Don't miss it!
For VHS copies of
Bitter Paradise: the Sellout of East Timor
contact Elaine Briere.
Click here to watch this program
in streaming video from our
Video Online section
(complete version only, RT: 57:30)working TV #151
August 27 1999 © Slim Evans 1999
All above programs available now @ Video Online
free of network censors. But not yet for all of us. Pentium class computer recommended.
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